Combination tool



April 1 1924.` 1,488,916'

i A. GEORGE COMBINATION Tool.

Filed Jan.v 3. 1922 /7/v THU/vr EORGE.

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Application :filed `Tanuary 3, 1922. Serial .'tl'o. 523,@3.

To all w/wm t maj] concern: fore limit ymyself to the use of the scaleBe 1t known that l, ANTHONY Gnoncn, a markings shown. citizen oi theUnited States, residing at Gre- The blades or blade sections have a pairnora, inthe county ot lvfilliams and State of of pivot pins or screws land 5, and by North Dakota, have invented a new and use means or thethumb nuts G and 7 on the re- 60 ful Combination Tool, of which thefollowspective screws, the end blade sections may ing is aspecification. be adjusted to various angles with relation The presentinvention is designed to proto the intermediate section l, or the endsecvide a combination tool or geometrical intions may be turned toalined position, asin l strument of the multipivoted straight edge llig. 4, to form a straight edge. ln any of 65 type, includingalevelingieature, and level these adjusted positions the end blades maysighting feature. The primary object of the be secured in rigidrelationship to the ininvention is the provision 01"' a tool oit thistermediate blade by turning tight the thumbcharacter of the folding ruletype that is nuts.

l5 adapted for various uses, constructed of a For laying oil angles atvarious degrees minimum number of parts, which may be with relation tothe intermediate blade, l extended as a straight edge or folded andutilize a protractor 8, which is riveted at 9 adjusted for use as asquare, or as an angle to the intermediate blade, and is also secured ormiter-square. By the utilization of the to said blade by the screw 4 andits nut 6.

subject matter ot my invention as physically rlhe protractor is rigidwith the intermediate 75 embodied, the amateur who is unfamiliar blade,and the end blade 2, which is pivoted with the uses of the usual steelsquare, may on the screw 4 at the center or" the prowith accuracy andconvenience lay oil work. tractor, may be utilized to mark oil anglesfind the compactly folded device provides as desired. Because of thelimited space l a pocket tool wl ich may be carried with have pinposelyomitted from the protrac'tor 80 convenience, and be substituted `forvarious the angle figures, but it will be understood tools now in use.that any well known type oi protractor may ln the accompanying drawingsl have be used and rigidly secured to the internisillustrated onecomplete example of the diate blade as shown.

3@ physical embodiment of my invention in- @n the end section 3, lpreferably use a de- S5 cluding, in addition to the spirit level andtachable spirit level lO, which extends longisight level, a protractor,in which the parts tudinally ot the blade section and is providarecombined and arranged according to the ed with end caps or uns ilfashioned with best mode l have thus 'lar devised for the perforatedears l2 extending outwardly practical application of theprinciples of mytherefrom. it one end of the spiritlevel 90 invention. the pivot screw 5and thumb nut 7 are used Figure l is a plan view or" the entire detoretain the spirit level, while at the other vice embodying my invention,the end blades end oi' the level a complementary screw 13 being turnedup at right angles or perpenand nut le are employed. The spirit level e@dicular to the intermediate blade, for conlits neatly in its end capswith suflicient fricvenience of illustration. tion to retain it inadjusted position, but its Figure 2 is an edge view of Fig. l. fit isloose enough to permit turning orn the Figure 3 is a sectional viewtaken on line level within its end caps, so that, when not 3-3 of Fig.l. in use, as in Figure ll, the glass may be l 15 Figure 4 is adiagrammatic view, in miniaturned around toward the blade section 3, for

ture, showing the tool extended as a straight protection.

edge. @n the end section or blade 2 I provide a lin the preferred formof the invention, the sighting device for use in leveling and deterbladesections l, 2, and 3 are preferably oi mining angles with reasonableaccuracy, at

steel, with scale markings thereon, in this, various distances. rlhesighting device cominstance, showing inches and divisions thereprisestwo spaced sights l5 and 16, the toroi', but it will be understood thatthe scales mer being used as the front sight and the or markings may bevaried, and different latter as the rear sight, and the sightopenarrangements may be made on the several ing 17 in the iront sight ispreferably larger lade sections, as desired, and l do not therethan thesight opening 18 in the rear sight Il@ f piece, for convenience insighting. Each of the sight pieces comp ises a dat disk or plate 19 Withthe sight opening therein, and the front sight disk has a Wire 15 acrossits opening to he used as a cross Wire in centering the sight openings.The flat plates are each fashioned with a bracket arm 20, angu lar inshape and the `oraclietarm is provided with an interiorly threadedsleeve 2l Jor the reception of the clamp screw 22. ln the drawings itwill readi y be seen that the tivo sight openings are aiined, the piatesbeing attached at spaced distance along the edge of the end bladesection 2. By means oi' the screws 22 these sight pieces are rigidlyattached tothe end section 2, the screws passing through holes oropenings in the blade section for that purpose. n

From the above description taken in connection With my drawings it willbe apparent that l have provided a combination tool `Patent is Thecombination with an intermediate blade section and pivoted end sectionsone of said sections having a threaded opening, o1 a pair of sightpieces with sight openings, said pie es each comprising a disk and an;attaching bracket and a clamp screw in said bracket engaging saidthreaded opening i the end section.

ANTHUNY GEGRGE.

